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LUKE 24:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 24:10Luke 24:12
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense — they did not believe the women: the apostles' non-belief is the first response of the resurrection community to the empty-tomb report. Seemed like nonsense (lēros, silly talk, drivel): the dismissive response of those who have not yet received the resurrection understanding.

Church Fathers on Luke 24:11

Devout women not only on the day of preparation, but also when the sabbath was passed, that is, at sun-set, as soon as the liberty of working returned, bought spices that they might come and anoint the body of Jesus, as Mark testifies. Still as long as night time restrained them, they came not to the sepulcher. And therefore it is said, On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, &c. One of the Sabbath, or the first of the Sabbath, is the first day from the…

Bede · 8th century

Now this place has caused great perplexity to many, because while St. Luke says, Very early in the morning, Matthew says that it was in the evening of the sabbath that the women came to the sepulcher. But you may suppose that the Evangelists spoke of different occasions, so as to understand both different parties of women, and different appearances. Because however it was written, that in the evening of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, our…

Ambrose · 4th century

Or Matthew by the first part of the night, which is the evening, wished to represent the night itself, at the end of which night they came to the sepulcher, and for this reason, because they had been now preparing since the evening, and it was lawful to bring spices because the sabbath was over.

Augustine · 4th century
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